Re: Re[2]: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 40406
Date: 2005-09-23

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:41:45 -0500, Patrick Ryan
<proto-language@...> wrote:

>***
>Patrick:
>
>I doubt very seriously that anyone can pronounce /t/ and /?/ simultaneously,
>which would be a sound that no language known to me has.
>
>For /?/ to be pronounced, the air-flow has to be stopped at the glottis.
>This would mean that even if one subsequently stopped the glotally released
>air-flow at the alveoli, what was being pronounced would properly be notated
>as /?t/.

[?t]


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